The sociology of Islam : collected essays of Bryan S. Turner / edited by Bryan S. Turner and Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir.
Taking a thematic approach, Bryan S. Turner draws together his important writings in sociology and Islam which engage with the relationship of Islam and the ideas of Western social thinkers. Turner engages with the broad categories of capitalism, orientalism, modernity, gender, and citizenship among...
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2013]
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| Series: | Contemporary thought in the Islamic world.
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Table of Contents:
- Islam, capitalism and the Weber theses
- Origins and traditions in Islam and Christianity
- State, science and economy in traditional societies
- Conscience in the construction of religion : a critique of Marshall G.S. Hodgson's The venture of Islam
- Orientalism, Islam and capitalism
- On the concept of axial space : orientalism and the originary
- Orientalism, or the politics of the text
- Leibniz, Islam and cosmopolitan virtue
- Sovereignty and emergency : political theology, Islam and American conservatism
- Class, generation and Islamism : towards a global sociology of political Islam
- Religious authority and the new media
- Women, piety and practice: a study of women and religious practice in Malaysia
- The body and piety : the hijab and marriage
- Islam, diaspora and multiculturalism
- Shari'a and legal pluralism in the West.